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  • ...ki/Theatre_for_Early_Years] ([[TEY]]) is a term used to refer to a form of theatre specifically devised for very young audiences (often 0-30 months). ...[TYA]]) or [[Theatre for Young People]], and is also known in the USA as [[Theatre for the Very Young]], or [[TVY]].
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  • The [[PACT Potpourri Festival]] is a festival of new, original South African plays. ...Potpourri Festival]]''', '''[[Pot Pourri Festival]]''' and '''[[Pot-Pourri Festival]]'''.
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  • The Mangaung African Cultural Festival (MACUFE) is held annually in Bloemfontein and it was launched in September ...ceptional cases, English and Afrikaans were used almost exclusively on the festival stages. (JvH)
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...he 1950s, followed by many years with [[PACT]] and [[Adam Leslie]]. In the early 1970s he founded the strolling players company [[Prester John Enterprises]]
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  • [[Liz Yates]] was an actress and festival director with [[PEMADS]] in Port Elizabeth. = Early Life =
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  • ...years old. ''[[A Respectable Wedding]]'' was the only one of Brecht’s five early one acts to be staged during his lifetime, being performed in Frankfurt in ...Wedding]]'' by the Centre for Experimental Theatre Brno - Czech republic (Theatre Goose on a String).
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  • ...Practitioners ([[UTP]]), a blanket body representing 12 Gauteng community theatre groups was formed and registered as an NPO (non-profit organisation) in Oct ...e NAC. This meant that works in rehearsal and already on the [[Grahamstown Festival]] programme would have to be cancelled. In the end the protestors had to be
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  • == Early professional career == ...worked with Steven Berkoff, at the Young Vic Theatre and at The Edinburgh Festival achieving a Fringe First for ''[[Don Juan]]'' and ''[[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]'''
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  • ...annesburg. Stein died on the 4th July, 2010 two weeks after his wife of 60 years, Shirley. The couple had 5 children. ...books director. In 1962 he founded the [[CNA Literary Award]]. After many years in publishing, until a serious illness led to his retirement in about 1980.
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  • ...th the collapse of the PAC system in the early 1990s and the coming of the Festival Circuit (particularly after 1994), as numerous small companies travel the c Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Themes|South African Theatre Terminology and Thematic Entries]]
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  • ...ing taught for 8 years, but then he gradually moved into the arts over the years, and finally, having won the [[Amstel Playwright of the Year]] award, he le == Career in South African theatre ==
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  • ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_in_Cairo]) in the early years of the 21st century - it explores the troubled relationship between the wes 2013: Staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with [[Cameron Robertson]] (Mohammed Al-Ma
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  • == Founding and early history == ...[The Lark]]''. In 1976 there were 55 members, ranging in age from 13 to 19 years old. Among those ''[[Young 'uns]]'' who made a significant contribution to
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  • ...rained as a draughtsman, and would work at this career on and off over the years. As a youth he did some theatre work with his parents, but soon discovered the guitar, and became a singer,
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  • In the early 1980s he went into voluntary exile in Switzerland, and while there acted as ...tember 17, 2018, having suffered from Parkinson's disease for a number of years.
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  • ...rogramme of verse, prose and/or dramatic sketches as part of an evening of theatre, various public occasions, solo performances, etc. Often done by a trained ...f the Afrikaans [[Festival|festival circuit]] in in the late 20th and even early 21st centuries.
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  • ...nd stemmed from his love of characters, such as Mister Miracle and Batman. Years later, his interest in escapology was piqued anew while living abroad in Lo ...w (And Other Magical Things)]]'', which ran daily at the ''[[National Arts Festival]]'' in Grahamstown from June 28 to July 2. It was also performed at [[The S
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  • ...]’s ''[[Theseus]]'' at the [[Oude Libertas Theatre|Oude Libertas open-air theatre]]. ...ré Roothman]] turned professional, and promptly started doing puppetry and theatre, involving his students from the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Departm
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  • Born in Seattle, spent his early adulthood in New York City and his maturing years in South Africa. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...lle de Villiers. She was a trained drama teacher. She died in Cape Town in early January 2002 at the age of 82. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • After 14 years as a Manageress for her parents's business - The Ranch House of Steaks - sh ==Early acting career==
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  • She was awarded a bursary in the 1944 Speech and Drama Festival at Durban, but before that, she won many other dance honours, including gol In 1945 she travelled to England in order to further her dancing career and early in 1946 she studied with Madame Rambert and Miss Elsa Brunelleschi.
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  • Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland he spent a large part of his early life in Africa and the Middle East, where his father worked as a doctor. Hi ...wn (1980-1981), he moved into the corporate business world for the next 20 years, working with some of the world’s leading agencies and brands in UK and i
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  • ...s a stage adaptation by [[James Ngcobo]] of '''''Touch My Blood: The Early Years''''' (Penguin, 2006)[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/touch-my-blo ...National Arts Festival]]'' on July 3 and 4 and then opened at the [[Market Theatre]] on July 8 and running till 23 August. Directed by [[James Ngcobo]] with
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  • ...ad performed in forty different operas in 650 performances in the [[Little Theatre]], with [[Erik Chisholm]] as conductor of the [[University Orchestra]]. Thi ...ini’s ''[[La sonnambula]]'', Puccini’s ''[[La bohème]]'', and in the early years Gluck’s ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' and ''[[Iphegenia in Tauris]]''. Other
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  • ...e world, e.g. in London in 1945 and as part of a Shaw Festival at the Arts Theatre in 1951. Usually done as part of a longer programme. A radio version was broadcast by the BBC in 1926 and an early BBC television service version in 1939.
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  • Born in Durban on 26 October 1907, Sneddon showed early ability, gaining the highest marks in the elocutionary section of the Londo .... In 1995 the Festival became known as the [[National Creative Arts Youth Festival]].
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  • Return To [[ESAT Chronology|A Chronology of South African Theatre and Performance]] Items printed in '''bold''' indicate [[South African]] '''theatre and performance events'''.
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  • ...[[Hennie Aucamp]]’s ''[[Wolf, Wolf hoe laat is dit?]]'' for the [[RSG Arts Festival]]. ...nd season of the series ''[[Die Sonkring]]'' ([[Bob Riley]]/1993). In the early 1950s she had been employed by the government as a dietician, but when she
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  • ...nd (Henri-René Lenormand, 1882-1951), performed in South Africa as '''[[In Theatre Street]]'''''. ...ffair with a white woman, Jean Hart, during the 1950s, the early Apartheid years, in [[Sophiatown]], South Africa. It was published in the collection ''The
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  • A play about two married couples, one twenty years older and more bitter than the other, who engage in an evening of games of ...ll]] in Johannesburg, but controversy over the blasphemous language saw an early close for the production.
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  • ...was a civil servant, conservationist, and actor, playwright, director and theatre administrator. ...1931, during the depression years, and was initially unemployed for three years.
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  • The [[Cape Flats Players]] is an influential community theatre group in the Western Cape (1973-) == Founding and early history ==
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  • ...out of 35 countries When the Bats disbanded in 1980, after a period of 16 years, he then followed a solo career. ...the part of Mannie Bloom in John Cundill's TV series ''Oh George'' in the early 1980s.
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  • In his early career he worked for [[CAPAB]] and [[NAPAC]]. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • In the early years of the 20th century, the increasing urbanisation of black South Africans in ...("the devil's music") was denigrated as a temptation to vice in its early years in the United States.
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  • [[Mario Schiess]] (1933-1998) was quantity surveyor, playwright, translator, theatre and film director and producer. ...ing at the University of Pretoria, graduating in 1956, and for the next 33 years followed a career in the field for as a partner in the firm Prentice, Shaw
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  • ...rabby at times, but an inspirational mentor to many theatremakers over the years. == The early years ==
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  • '''Paul Boekkooi''' (194*-) Arts journalist, theatre reviewer and music critic. For three years in a row he was principal horn in the National Youth Orchestra and played u
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  • [[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (1930-2015) was a human resources specialist and theatre practitioner. ...stage manager and theatre manager in South Africa and then for a number of years (1957-1968) in the then Rhodesia.
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  • ...]] was born on 19 July, 1949, in Cape Town, of Irish parentage and had her early schooling at Rustenburg Primary School, Rondebosch and Huguenote Hoër Skoo ...inted Head of Features in 1972, the first woman to hold that post. For two years (1974-5) she worked as a free-lance journalist in London.
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  • ...t the family home in Bosham, West Sussex, England, where Masson started an early public relations firm and continued writing plays, film scripts, novels, m ==Contribution to theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • 1980s: Performed by the [[Cape Flats Players]] in the late seventies and early eighties and ...rmed by [[PACT]], September 1982, in the [[State Theatre]] and [[Alexander Theatre]], directed by [[Louis van Niekerk]] (assistant director: [[Johan Blignaut]
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  • ...s Mpumalanga), he grew up on the farm Kaalspruit nearby. He obtained his early schooling at the small farm school at Kaalspruit and completed high school Over the years he was the founder and co-editor of the educational journal ''[[Klasgids]]'
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  • ...r a period with [[Gibson Kente]] in Soweto, he worked as a clerk for three years until he auditioned for ''[[Woza Albert!]]'' in 1986. ...rked in London's West End playing "Mufasa" in ''[[The Lion King]]'' in the early 2000s.
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  • ..., who is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his ac ...kipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morton_(dramatist)] - also opened in the Victoria Theatre, London, on 17 February, produced by Beerbohm Tree and his company, directe
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  • ...pedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berkoff] is an English actor, author, playwright and theatre director. In 1968 he formed the London Theatre Group that departed from mainstream theatre and started to evolve an innovative, more integrated theatrical language. B
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  • The play's title has a had number of variant spellings over the years, depending on the source, among them ''[[Master Harold and the boys]]'', '' A South African premiére , directed by Fugard, opened at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1983.
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  • ...the Globe Theatre by the King's Men in 1606. First published in quarto in early 1607 printed by Thomas Thorpe and in an amended version in folio in 1616. ...in 1952 (in an adaptation by Stefan Zweig), as part of the [[Van Riebeeck Festival]] and directed by [[Leonard Schach]] with [[Pieter Geldenhuys]] (Corvins),
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  • ...om drama to comedy to street theatre and the very beginnings of industrial theatre. In 1977 she joined [[PACT Playwork]] in Pretoria, under direction of [[Rob == Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance ==
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  • Written in 1912, the play became a hit at the Royalty Theatre, playing for over 600 performances. ...of an English family over a period of fifty years, from the 1860's to the early part of the 20th century. At the basis of the drama is the conflict between
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  • ...ehaeck]] (1922-2017) was a lawyer, property owner, mime artist, puppeteer, theatre manager, actor, director, playwright, lecturer ...nate lover of theatre, poetry and philosophy, he actively participated in theatre and poetry readings in the city.
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  • Born in Worcester, he learnt to play the guitar and wrote music at an early age, playing in a band called The Creeps during his schooldays. Originally ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...by South African women ([[Gcina Mhlope]], [[Fatima Dike]]). ''Contemporary Theatre Review'', 9(2):39-50.
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  • [[Site-specific theatre]] can refer to any theatrical performance done in non-theatrical location o Site-specific theatre practitioners have a particular interpretation of the term, seeking to use
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  • ...-authored the Primary School Arts and Culture textbook. He is presenting a theatre mentorship programme at schools at present. ...r of the [[Eoan Group]] from 1976 to 1981 teaching, directing and being in theatre management.
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  • ...It returned to the [[Alhambra Theatre]], Durban and the [[Baxter Theatre]] early in 1985 due to demand. ...matic Society]] in Cape Town, directed by [[John Farrell]] at the [[Masque Theatre]], 2006, starring, among others, [[Mike Tompson]].
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  • Also found as [[Pieter Uys]] in early programmes. ...n der Gucht]], [[Mavis Taylor]] and [[Robert Mohr]]. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he studied at the London Film School [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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  • ...n Krugersdorp she got to know [[P.P.B. Breytenbach]] and began working in theatre at a professional level, ''inter alia'' as an actress with the [[Krugersdor ...erlin "Presse Klub" and once more was able to meet a range of contemporary theatre practitioners, including Bertold Brecht, Helena Weigel, Max Reinhardt, Walt
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  • ...rmaas studied at Rhodes University (BA U.ED.), and after teaching for four years, entered the theatrical profession -- acting, directing and writing. In 198 ...OFS]], [[The Company]] as well as other managements. Worked with the Arena Theatre.
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  • ...ngo Salons and became a member of the Cape Heart Community and Educational Theatre Company, devising, directing and acting in Shakespeare programmes for schoo ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...oved down to Port Elizabeth and became involved in amateur theatre from an early age, winning his first talent contest at the age of four, singing Elvis Pre ...998 André Huguenet Memorial Lecture for the [[Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival]], his theatrical career was conceived and nurtured in the [[Mannville]] nu
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  • == Early influences == ...ress, performing in the school plays. The school today has an annual drama festival named after her.
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  • ...am Road and concluded his schooling at [[Harold Cressy]] (the final matric years, 1955 and 1956). ...king for Howard Brukman printing works in Maitland, where he stayed for 11 years. In 1970 he started working at Zonnebloem College as a bursar, a College th
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  • ...before moving to Johannesburg in the early '90s. He was initially drawn to theatre after reading Shakespeare's plays, specifically ''[[The Merchant of Venice] ...he [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]], the [[Market Theatre]] and the [[Baxter Theatre]].
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  • ...in his final year during the RADA Annual Public Performance at the Aldwych Theatre. ...ason of the Brian Brooke Company in Cape Town and then joined the National Theatre Company as one of its leading players.
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  • ...alogue - such as Operetta[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operetta], Musical theatre[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre], Singspiel[https://en.wikipe ...by dramatic companies and the so-called Savoy operas of the late 19th and early 20yth centuries.
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  • ...ry serious and excellent young actor, he worked on 47 productions in three years. In this period he worked with [[Athol Fugard]] and [[Yvonne Bryceland]]. He joined the [[Market Theatre]]'s [[The Company]] in 1975.
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  • She also wrote and translated under the name [[Anna S. Pohl]] and in early years performed as [[Anna Pohl]]. ...([[Truida Louw|Truida Pohl]], [[Jan Pohl]] and [[Snaps Pohl]]) all became theatre practitioners as well.
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  • ...wn and London. Her career in all these forms of theatre would span over 60 years. She began acting in plays in the [[Little Theatre]], Cape Town in 1939. Also in Cape Town, in 1940, she and [[Dorothy Fairlie
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  • ...ith a short stint of 5 years as an advocate in the Cape, before he spent 3 years as a freelance writer and announcer for the [[SABC]] and for the BBC in Lo In the early nineteen fifties he settled on the farm "Saffier" ("Saphire") near the Paar
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  • ...to the canon of [[Afrikaans]] literature and theatre in the pivotal early years of the [[cultural struggle]]. Over the years his political and philosophical commentary, have appeared in a number of pu
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  • ...d imitations over the years under various titles - the first apparently an early translation by Frank C. Burnand. ...(1828-1890) called '''''[[The Bells]]'''''. First performed at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on November 25, 1871, starring Sir Henry Irving as "Mathias", it w
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  • ...egree through UNISA, spent 12 weeks studying Method Acting at [[New Africa Theatre Project]] in Cape Town under Alexander von Raumondt (who trained at the Lee ...er in 1979, working as actress and assistant stage manager for the [[Space Theatre]].
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  • ...ariety of play collections over the years, including ''[[Dimetos]] and Two Early Plays'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 1977). ...akes Mokae]], followed by four nights at the [[Brooke Theatre|Brian Brooke Theatre]] in the same city that year for a ‘whites only’ run (when [[Lewis Nkos
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...SA Films]], for whom he worked as producer, director and film actor for 20 years.
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  • ''[[Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena]]'' (Lit: "The Wandering Years of Poppie Nongena") can refer to the 1978 '''novel''' by [[Elsa Joubert]] ( ...983, directed by [[Lucille Gillwald]]. It toured the United States for two years.
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  • A frothy concoction of the early Brink plays, based on the format of a village charity revue-concert, with t ...irst produced by [[Robert Mohr]] for [[CAPAB]]. It opened at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] on 13 October. The cast included [[Nerina Ferreira]], who was nominated f
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  • '''There are two people by this name associated with South African theatre.''' ...eventually reaching England in 1946 where he set up a workshop and studio theatre in Hampstead.
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  • ...Men, then retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. However, since so few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, ...is class and an award at the RAGA Annual Public Performance at the Aldwych Theatre.
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  • ...African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...ies: forging innovative theatrical and research content. ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', 24:311-326.
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  • ...actor and stage director from 1979 to 1999. He returned to Britain in the early 2000's, where he died at the age of 94 on 17 May 2015. ...[[Uproar in the House]]''. He then commuted between SA and the UK for some years. He eventually moved to South Africa permanently, married [[Tammy Bonell]],
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  • Took ballet classes from an early age, and after matriculating from Afrikaans Meisies Hoërskool, Pretoria, s ...]] opened in Johannesburg seven years later, and, after performing in this theatre’s two opening productions, embarked on a freelance career.
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  • From 1946 until 1948 Brulin studied theatre at the Studio of the National Theatre in Antwerp. He also attended a BBC training course and became the first TV ...e founded in Antwerp the [[Nederlands Kamertoneel]] a professional Chamber Theatre and staged his first experimental plays. Brulin got attention as a playwrig
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  • [[Maynardville Open-air Theatre]] is a performance venue situated in Maynardville park[https://en.wikipedia ..., and the archery lawn later used to construct the [[Maynardville Open-Air Theatre]].
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  • Founding member of [[Troupe Theatre Company]]. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • == Indian theatre == Indian theatre: This term is used when referring to performances and works created and wri
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  • [[Temple Hauptfleisch]] (1945-) is an academic, theatre researcher, historian, archivist, critic and dramatist. ...lm actor [[Pieter Hauptfleisch]], was an early inspiration for a career in theatre.
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  • ...African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Zuanda Badenhorst|Badenhorst, Zuanda]] 2005. South African puppetry for the theatre since 1975. Pretoria: Tshwane University of Technology. Unpublished master'
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  • ...z Szymczak]]), an actress and teacher. They have three children, including theatre-maker [[Luke Ellenbogen]]. ...[[Theatre for Africa]], to use improvisational and mimetic principles in a theatre aimed at eco-issues. They travelled extensively with productions focused on
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  • ...t London. He matriculated from Selborne College in 1979. After serving two years’ national service (1980 & 1981), he enrolled at [[Rhodes University]] for ...(''[[Die Teken]]'') and various other works. An articulate and passionate theatre theorist and practitioner, Opperman was soon being hailed as a genius and i
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  • It was renamed the [[Mandela Bay Theatre Complex]] in 2018, and declared a cultural institution in terms of the Cult Originally named the [[Alexander Theatre and Opera House]], (named after Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United K
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  • ...he former also used for political meetings and stage performances over the years. ''[[Sophiatown]]'' (a play, [[Junction Avenue Theatre]], 1986)
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  • [[Arts Theatre Club]], an amateur dramatic society in East London. ...Theatre]] to raise funds toward the building of what was to be the [[Guild Theatre]].
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  • ...or from the disparity in the sources seem to suggest that there may be TWO theatre and film personalities with South African links bearing this name.''' ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...further away from the original social realism that characterizes Fourie's early days and the symbolic adaptations he introduced to his notion of [[volkstea 1984: First performed to acclaim at the [[Kampustoneel]] Festival by students of the Drama Department of the [[University of Potchefstroom fo
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  • [[African Consolidated Theatres]] ([[ACT]]) was a national theatre and film organization active in the country for much of the 20th century. ...[A.H. Stodel]] ([[Harry Stodel]]), with the intention of saving the ailing theatre industry by organizing it nationwide. They pooled their resources to gradua
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  • ...e highlights were playing "Lady Croom" and "Hannah" for the Royal National Theatre's ''[[Arcadia]]'' by Tom Stoppard and "Lady Macbeth" in ''[[Macbeth]]''. ...r Lecturer at [[Wits School of Arts]] and appointed Head of Department for Theatre and Performance in 2021.
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  • == '''Children's Theatre''' and '''Theatre for Young People''' in general == === Children's theatre ===
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  • Most of their early productions were performed in the school's [[De Waal Hall]]. After a number of years of inactivity, The Drama Club was reconstituted under the chairmanship of M
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  • ...ing year she became a permanent member of its [[Afrikaans]] company, until early 1977, when she became a freelance actress. ...7de Laan]]'' as Hilda de Kock, a role with which she was identified for 17 years. In the series she was later ostensibly married to Septimus “Oubaas” v
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  • ...African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Peter W. Bodie|Bodie, Peter W.]] 1980. History of South African theatre. Part I. ''[[Scenaria]]'', (21):33-34.
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  • ...n South Africa''' (including a '''link''' to an ''[[Index to South African Theatre and Media Critics, Commentators and Reviewers]]''). ...South Africa''', (including a '''link''' to an ''[[Index to South African Theatre and Media Researchers and Historians]]'').
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  • ...years (1976-1994). The [[Market Theatre]] is administered by the [[Market Theatre Foundation]]. =The Market Theatre Building=
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  • ...ional Theatre Organisation]] (1947-1961), was a bilingual, state supported theatre organisation. ...sing the acronym '''[[NTO]]''', it founded in 1947 to promote and produce theatre in [[Afrikaans]] and English in South Africa - the first such organisation
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  • [[John Kani]] (1943-) is a renowned actor, director, playwright and theatre administrator. ...king for working the Ford Motor Company, while continuing to be engaged in theatre, as a member of various drama groups in the New Brighton area, performing
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  • ...arents to become a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London for two years. On her return to Port Elizabeth she established a speech training school. She became involved with amateur theatre in Port Elizabeth and produced and acted in many plays. After her marriage
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  • ...African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[D. Lincoln|Lincoln, D.]] 1974. Taking off into [[Space Theatre|Space]]. ''Personality'', 50-53. June 28.
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  • ...t trace the history of the country from the early days of apartheid to the years following the liberation and inspired a number of other writers, directors ...y House]], the [[Market Theatre]], the [[Baxter Theatre]] and the [[Fugard Theatre]] in Cape Town.
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  • ...f [[performing arts criticism]], largely focused on three subsections - on Theatre, Film, and Radio & TV) 3: ''A listing of key sources on theatre and media criticism, commentary and research''
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  • ...March 2010. A shorter article, utilising this material, was published in ''Theatre Research International'' (Vol 35 No , 2010) in 2010. ...lar context and epoch. For example, the very notions of '''drama''' and '''theatre''' – even ideas about '''performance''' (and indeed '''criticism''' and
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  • ...'. Possibly written in 1603 or 1604, and first performed by Shakespeare’s theatre group, the King’s Men, as ''[[The Moor of Venice]]'' on November 1, 1604, The play has over the years had numerous incarnations in many forms across the globe. In the section en
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  • ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Toerien] is an impressario, producer and theatre owner. ...age productions, certainly one of the most powerful and successful private theatre [[impressario]]'s of the period after 1980.
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  • ...f traveling entertainers, which continued to be moderately strong into the early 20th century, and which has some continuity down to today's buskers or stre ...3. The title became a generic one, and took on a variety of forms over the years, with groups performing in this particular style often adopting the name [[
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  • ...ertas Teaterklub]] (aka [[Libertas Theatre Club]]) is a bilingual amateur theatre club in Stellenbosch. ...available by the Municipality (not to be confused with the [[Oude Libertas Theatre]] outside Stellenbosch).
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  • ...rgest and perhaps the best known [[Civic Theatre|civic theatre]], or city theatre, in the country, one of a number built in the 1960s and 1970s. The theatre complex has had many names over the years.
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  • ...''''[[Macbeth]]''''' (or "''[[The Scottish Play]]''" by more superstitious theatre makers). Also billed as '''''[[Macbeth, King of Scotland]]''''' in some cas 1854: [[Mr Nightingale]], the Port Captain, obtained the [[African Theatre]] for two (unspecified) nights in 1854, to put on scenes from ''[[Macbeth]]
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  • == Censorship and theatre == ...persuade them, but this didn't stop the PCB from banning the film for many years.
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